Smokin bones bbq

smokinbones

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• Apr 9, 2014

• #1

I have a 275 gallon oil tank that I am looking to make into a smoker. I would like to utilize a side fire box any pictures out there

 

GaryHibbert

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• Apr 9, 2014

• #2

Hey

Welcome to the Smoking  forum.   You’ll find great , friendly people here, all more than willing to answer any question you may have.  Just ask and you’ll get about 10 different answers—all right.  LOL.   Don’t forget to post qviews.     If you go back to the main list of forums, way down the list there is an entire forum on different smokers

Gary

 

gary s

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• Apr 10, 2014

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Hey, good morning and welcome to the forum, lots of pictures and builds on here, I'll bet you'll find what your looking for.

Gary S

 

smokinbones

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• Apr 11, 2014

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Just curious if anyone can tell me the type of steel and thickness that they used for their fire box?

 

unclebubbas bbq

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• Apr 11, 2014

• #5

I would go with 1/8" thick cold rolled steel

 

gary s

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• Apr 11, 2014

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1/4 " on the fire box and everything else is what we do,  But on the fire box nothing less than 1/4"

Gary S